Darrell Scott performs Friday, May 9, at the Spire Center in Plymouth, and he’ll be the first to tell you the setlist could ...

The five-man string band employs a style that evokes bluegrass yet doesn’t meet all the expectations that word suggests. For one thing, none of the strings in this string band are on a banjo or ...

Giddens gives each tune its own distinctive color ... By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the five-string banjo, outfitted with an elaborate, fretted neck, became a mainstay of ragtime ...

I do this mouth music, and it’d be nice to have a traditional folk tune ... string bands for years, suddenly I’m the only brown person I see who doesn’t have a broom. I’m a banjo player ...

You may know Peter Holsapple from his work with everyone from R.E.M. to Hootie & The Blowfish. Here's his advice for making ...

But Scott’s career is a constant search for new sounds, and in 2023 he released “Old Cane Back Rocker,” by The Darrell Scott String Band ... out trying to pen a tune for a certain genre.

Join 24,000 of your neighbors and stay in tune with the ... performance by breakout string band New Dangerfield, followed by guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams’s 5 p.m. show, is a powerhouse ...

Later he would perform a tune on the banjo ... a string tie and red roses embroidered on his shirt sang “Way Down in the Blue Ridge Mountains.” A harmonica player blew like a Category 5 ...

WESTFORD — Do a Google search on Vermont band The Tenderbellies and the intro to their website will tell you their sound is “Bluegrass(ish).” The five-man string band employs a style that ...

Long before he was flying “Eight Miles High” as the frontman for The Byrds, Roger McGuinn called Tarrytown home. “My folks had a rented house there. I went to second and third grade in Tarrytown. My ...